{"id":121577,"date":"2025-01-13T19:17:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/121577\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"polish-interior-minister-rules-out-checkpoint-reopening","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/121577\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish interior minister rules out checkpoint reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

January 13, Pozirk<\/em>. <\/strong>Polish-Belarusian border security is crucial for Schengen area security, Polish Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told reporters in Bia\u0142ystok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister announced that the European commissioner for internal affairs and migration, Magnus Brunner, accepted an invitation to visit the border in the coming months to assess the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siemoniak said Poland would very much like border crossings to be open, but there was nothing to indicate that this could happen soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minister blamed Belarus for its refusal to release journalist Andrzej Poczobut (Andrej Pa\u010dobut). Minsk has also refused to cooperate in investigating last year’s murder of a Polish soldier, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poland continues to suspect Belarusian security agencies of organizing and facilitating illegal migration at the border, he asserted. Poland has no room for action until Belarus demonstrates goodwill, he said. Warsaw considers each of the cases mentioned as a hostile action, Siemoniak stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration crisis at the Belarusian-European border has been ongoing since the spring of 2021. Poland and the Baltic states call it a hybrid attack engineered by Minsk and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Belarus sentenced journalist and Polish minority activist Poczobut to eight years in prison in February 2023, prompting Poland to close down the major border crossing, Bobrowniki (Bierastavica), until his release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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